Job Title: Lead Data Analyst / Statistician
Job ID: KBL-01
Location: Remote, with occasional travel
Employment Type: Contract
Engagement: Part-time consultant, about 25 days, November 2026 – June 2027 (baseline phase). Re-engagement for the midline and endline is expected, subject to performance.
Responsibilities
- Finalise the sampling frame, stratification, power calculation and minimum detectable effect with the Partner during inception.
- Prepare enumeration-area maps and the household listing and selection procedures for 160 enumeration areas.
- Review the baseline questionnaire, programmed on tablets, for measurement quality and skip logic.
- Build design and non-response weights for the baseline panel of 2,400 parents.
- Construct and validate outcome indices (factor analysis, reliability) and estimate intra-cluster correlations.
- Produce all tables and charts for the Baseline Report, and draft the pre-analysis plan for public registration by June 2027.
- Deliver the clean baseline dataset, codebook and reproducible Stata or R scripts.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Econometrics, Epidemiology or a related field; PhD preferred.
- At least 7 years of professional experience analysing complex household survey data.
- Experience designing multi-stage cluster samples and survey weights.
- Expert use of Stata and/or R.
Preferred experience:
- Panel or longitudinal surveys, and causal-inference methods for observational data.
- Evaluations of social and behaviour change, media, gender or GBV programmes.
- Survey work in Northern Nigeria or with Hausa-speaking populations.
Skills and attributes:
- Rigour and transparency in code and documentation.
- Able to explain statistical results in plain English.
- Able to work remotely to fixed deadlines.
Application Closing Date
15th October, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their a CV (no more than 4 pages), a short cover note confirming their availability, their expected daily rate and two professional referees to: aidhealthinc@gmail.com using the Job ID and title as the subject of the email (for example, “KBL-01 Lead Data Analyst”).